Does instant transportation effect game immersion?

[Azurymber]

SW TOR is based off the KOTOR games and still very similar
those games were a massive success
and from what ive heard you can play all of TOR like that (ex. solo)
So that alone should make it a success

Will people stay registered? who knows.
but if they do they will definitely be making enough money to afford to keep up the voice acting.
And unlike the other games its an MMO. which -is- a threat to the game.

Rift did drain a bunch of people away. Probably a good half or more of wutai's original endgame (the first ppl to kill most NMs and Dodore) left for Rift. And those were the "elite" players who pushed jobs and crafts to 50 while other ppl were still stuck at 30.

Other MMOs always have the potential to drain away players. Especially dissatisfied hardcore ones who have nothing left to do but grind.

[User201109011315]

SW TOR is based off the KOTOR games and still very similar
those games were a massive success
and from what ive heard you can play all of TOR like that (ex. solo)
So that alone should make it a success

Will people stay registered? who knows.
but if they do they will definitely be making enough money to afford to keep up the voice acting.
And unlike the other games its an MMO. which -is- a threat to the game.

Rift did drain a bunch of people away. Probably a good half or more of wutai's original endgame (the first ppl to kill most NMs and Dodore) left for Rift. And those were the "elite" players who pushed jobs and crafts to 50 while other ppl were still stuck at 30.

Other MMOs always have the potential to drain away players. Especially dissatisfied hardcore ones who have nothing left to do but grind.

Most people i know left for rift too. And there is this one guy who is FFXIV's biggest blind fanboy who is leaving for SW:ToR.

I think the fact that he could be so disenchanted with FFXIV due to some of the changes is what makes me really question SE's ability to succeed.

I won't be playing SW:ToR personally, but i think many FF players share fandom with SW so it could be a pretty big blow to FF's population. Most people don't play two MMOs fulltime. Another thing to take not of is the fact that FFXIV's only selling point, i.e., the only things that really made it stand out against other games, are slowly being eroded (which I realise is a contentious point to some but you've got to be bling to miss it, no offence).